On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Dan Stenning wrote:
Sure. What interests me more is how much is now being written in
the RB
language as opposed to C++. I'm not so interested in which
version they
currently develop in
The IDE is pretty much 100% RB from what I know
... well.. Actually... I am ... Hopefully at least 2006R2 ;)
Not that I know of but that may have changed.
Last I knew it was a "special" version of 5.x with the RB 2005/2006
frameworks.
If REAL were using the current IDE to write the next version they'd
see the exact same bugs and warts we do and those might get fixed
quicker.
That's the whole point of using the current version of any tool to
write the next version of the tool.
It's called boot strapping FYI and used to be quite common to get a
language on a new architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap
About half way down the computing section has a description
Bootstrapping can also refer to the development of successively more
complex
programming environments. The simplest environment will be, perhaps,
a very basic
text editor (e.g. ed) and an assembler program. Using these tools,
one can write a more
complex text editor, and a simple compiler for a higher-level
language and so on, until
one can have a graphical IDE and an extremely high-level programming
language.
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